After enjoying the excellent hospitality of our host here in Pisa
(6 courses) we were ready for our second day at YAPCEU 2010 here
in sunny Pisa.

Larry’s new catch phrase “My Language is a four letter word” was
the ‘Buzz word’ for today. We settled down to some very
interesting talks, the highlight for me being Tim Bunce’s talk on
using Devel::NYTProf to Optimize your code. Tim first gave us a
quick and dirty overview of optimization which covered the basics
of where to start and what to look for he followed up with real
examples of Optimizer output and than wrapped up with a few
before and after results on an optimization effort.

The rest of the day was dedicated in my opinion, to the future of
DBs in with Nelson Ferraz giving an excellent presentation of his
concepts for using Perl as to glue for a Data Warehouse
application. Next on my agenda, Martin Berends reports on the
present state of Perl 6 and interfaces …

The latest release of DBD::Oracle is now ready and can be found
at: CPAN DBD::Oracle. It is a Perl module that works with the DBI
module to provide access to Oracle databases. It is maintained by
me, John Scoles as open source/free software, under the auspices
of The Pythian Group. The release has been fully tested [...]

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